@roamer_1 The shutdown was supposed to be a voluntary shutdown. Yes Trump left it up to the states as he did re-opening. The CDC, WHO, Dr. Evil and Dr. Birk (can't remember her name exactly) were on TV daily with dire warnings that we had to flatten the curve and NY had people dying left and right. Not to mention the catastrophic shutdowns in the nursing homes while not testing for COVID.
Doesn't matter if Tumpy left it to the states. What murdered business was destroying the supply chain. Shipping was controlled. Amazon and the other box stores were given carte blanche but my locally owned hardware store couldn't get a delivery for months. He closed up. Factories and ports were closed. where are you going to get product? And it is still happening.
Then the good ole govt decided to throw $$ at the situation with all the stimulus checks and child care checks, etc., giving people little incentive to get back to work. (Remember Congress dangled their purse strings -- what was Trump going to do - deny people a way to eat?)
I was FOR him in his initial decisions. Till he folded up like a 2 dollar lawn chair. And that's on him. And he signed off on it. That ain't a small thing. Two weeks my a**.
And that cannot be rewarded.
You know the story --- Each of us has our own story and most of us soon realized that we'd been duped. Trump didn't play dictator but rather made recommendations to voluntarily shut down based on the b.s. that Dr. Evil, CDC and the WHO fed him. Fauci knew full well what was happening and he knew full well what happened in China and assisted in a stolen election by instilling fear in people. Yes, people lost businesses, jobs, family members, etc. I blame the evil ones, I can't lay this all on Trump's feet. You see it differently and that is fine.
I don't lay it ALL on Tumpy's feet either. But everybody ELSE is eeeevil... Not poor Tumpy. Guess what. He was standing right there next to Fauxci all the way along.
I get it. Even in FL DeSantis was pressured into shutting us down just like the rest of the country 'opted' to do. Our local government decided to strictly follow the Fauci guidelines and we weren't even allowed on the streets unless we had a job that was considered 'essential'.
I had a Dem governor at the time. Same thing ... Except folks tended to pay it no mind. Unless you needed government (which was closed) or a bank (which were closed). Or tried to ship anything. Heck, they never got half of folks up here to wear masks. And so many ignored it that the sheriff couldn't have enforced it - which he generally didn't. City cops tried for a while. Didn't work. When the elections came, we got Gianforte (R), who promptly reversed all he could and opened the state up...
